LONDON TIMES CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

Across

1 Some food said to be lacking taste (6) 4 Station providing drink before the office (8) 10 Stars with European city lawyer (9) 11 Anger about loud gun (5) 12 Important member of the great and good welcoming a foreigner (7) 14 Centre of learning’s large book about Celtic’s result (7)

15 This could be rude (4-6,4) 18 Comic’s cleaner story when with vicar on the radio (7,7) 22 Grates start to rust on joints (7)

24 Tart sometimes looked stewed (3-4)

25 Row about good golfer (5)

26 Will one snap when gatecrashers do this? (9) 28 Stupid person starts to deliver smart answers (8) 29 Something rude to do is eating very fast (6)

Down

1 Stylishclothing one female’s to organise (8) 2 Matildaoddly ignored assistant (3) 3 Small hole by the foreign river for a duck (9)

5 A black sole circles a shellfish (7) 6 Mourn headless heron (5) 7 Swimming Liffey and Loire for a carefree existence (4,2,5) 8 Cook’s key? (6)

9 Act stupidly and get lost (4,2) 13 Doctor haggling about gold and sulphur — chemical inducing euphoria (8,3) 16 Vessel that may dispatch a pod (9) 17 Bile about fashionable journalist initially hard to take in (8) 19 At home drink I had is flavourless (7) 20 Guard’s request to turn in vehicle (6) 21 Provide refreshment? It’s right to fill this hole! (6) 23 Mostly big, old and slow (5) 27 Put gold round a blade (3)